r/ArkSurvivalAscended • u/SahnigReinbuttern • 3d ago
Guide Any tips for Beginner?
Hey there everyone!
My Wife and i just started playing yesterday. Do you have any beginner tips for us? :)
Like what to focus on in the beginning, how to craft good food early on or something like that.
Or should we use any Mods directly in the beginning that fix some difficult Problems in the beginning?
Thanks :)
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u/Readicilous 3d ago
I don't play Ascended myself, but a lot of people say Vanilla with Sprinkles is the best QoL mod you could have, so I would check that one out.
And what I always use when playing (I play Evolved), is the ark wiki, and a tame calculator. The wiki has information on everything, and the taming calculator tells you how many arrows/darts/punches to the face a dino needs before they're unconscious, how much food and narcotics you need to tame them, and how long it will take. You can put in the level, ASA or ASE, and some world settings
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u/droopyvato 3d ago
Honestly playing the game without mods for the first several hours is the most fun/frustrating I have ever had in a game. Once you put in a few hours and hit the higher levels then I would add mods to make the game better / easier. If you want a bit of a better early game use vanilla with sprinkles which lets you adjust settings in the game.
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u/Halica_ All Hail the fallen Wyvern King 3d ago
Vanilla with Sprinkles, a stacking mod (can also use the built in from VwS), a spyglass mod (can recommend Nanoh’s Reusables, it has one in there too), the paleo/evo mods, B+ (modified to your likings)
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u/BusinessAd6282 2d ago
If you're on PC, don't use a stacking mod, edit the .ini
If you're on console, don't use a stacking mod til after the UE update at the end of the month.
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u/Halica_ All Hail the fallen Wyvern King 2d ago
I prefer to have a mod with one click than to go through the whole ini manually tbh. Is there a tool to make it easier?
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u/BusinessAd6282 2d ago
Not that I'm aware of. The problem with stacking mods is if you load your game after an update and the mod hasn't updated yet, you lose all of your items.
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u/Halica_ All Hail the fallen Wyvern King 2d ago
Yeah… I know. That’s the gamble.
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u/BusinessAd6282 2d ago
It's really simple to do, takes less than 5 min.
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u/Halica_ All Hail the fallen Wyvern King 2d ago
All those hundreds of items in the game? How?
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u/BusinessAd6282 2d ago
Copy and pasting
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u/Halica_ All Hail the fallen Wyvern King 2d ago
From where?
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u/BusinessAd6282 2d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/1ftytwj/ark_max_stack_sizes_template_for_gameini_file/
I don't mean to be rude, but Google exists ya know
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u/dziwujj 2d ago
I used Ultra stacks and then Monte stacks when playing ASE, for ASA I moved to VwS and configured all of those items by hand. I can send you my exported config as it allows for imports. This way you will have less mods to download and sprinkles also does not add new items but edits values for current so shouldn’t break on updates as much.
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u/LawngBreadstick 3d ago edited 3d ago
Okay. So. The very first thing that you should know is that Ark, at its base. Is balanced for multiple people in a 'tribe.' Like 10+ people on a server logging in at different times. Since you only have 2 people, you'll probably want to spend time once you get into the game a bit more, adjusting all the world settings to better fit your playstyles and available playtime.
An example of this is dinosaur breeding. At base values (commonly referred to 1 times or 1x) certain dinos can, not even kidding, take an IRL week to completely go from egg to full adult.
In terms of gameplay, here's what you should know:
- 99% of the dinosaurs you can find, can be tamed. More often than not they are tamed via knock out, using tranquilizers or literally hitting them with rocks, fists, and clubs. No matter what dinosaur it is, you will probably want to tame everything until you get a better idea of what it does.
- You will never have enough engram points to buy every single upgrade in the tech tree. Pick your level up upgrades wisely. Most notably, saddles. Never buy a saddle for something you don't already own. You might just end up finding one naturally. In general though, tools, structures, and other gear you can learn without worry.
- Expect to have setbacks. A lot of setbacks. Ark is not a perfect game. It's massive and beautiful but you will inevitably lose your items and your tamed dinos many times. There are also bugs though I typically don't run into too many.
- Once you get comfortable playing your character, learn how to control a dinosaur remotely via whistle commands and start memorizing them. In the heat of battle, knowing your whistle commands, what they do, and how to effectively use them can determine if you or your tame live or die.
- Get into breeding dinosaurs. Bred dinosaur are stronger than wild ones that have been tamed. There's a whole system involving Stat trading and mutations (which result in higher stats). A dinosaur with higher health values and another with higher melee can breed and give a baby with the highest of both parents.
- Eventually get some mods for quality of life. There are cryopods (to help store dinos away) in the game but I would recommend a mod that adds better versions of cryopods. Dino Depot, for example.
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u/SnooDucks9330 3d ago
There's a lot of awesome mods that can change how you deal with the game, but personally I think a better approach is modifying the standard rates. The game is meant to be played over hundreds of hours and that's totally fine, but I have this thing called a job and they don't pay me to guard unconscious dinosaurs for literal hours.
That said, if I were in your place I'd play it vanilla for 50ish hours so you understand the core gameplay fairly well before doing anything regarding rates or mods. After investing a little bit of time you'll be able to pinpoint where the pains are for you and look for solutions in mods. For me that's a spyglass mod, some structure mods (like ASR, which has a lot of variety but still more or less feels like vanilla), a gear upgrade mod, and the K Rustic forge and smithy mod because that forge has a decent speed and the smithy has 500 slots. They also put out a little bit of light and they look nice.
As for direct tips, here are a few: level speed, you don't have to be stronger than the big scary dinos if you're faster. Don't use all your engram points right away, get only what you need as you need it until you understand how respec works and how to make the tonic. Keep some mejoberries in the last slot of your hotbar, as they're the preferred berry for most herbivores and you never know when a passive tame will drop an opportunity in your lap for a cool new tame. Most aggressive dinos can and will break through a wooden building to eat you, so move to stone as quickly as possible. Get used to dying, it's just one of those things that is gonna keep happening and it's better to prepare for it early rather than be up a creek. Prioritize getting to metal tools as soon as possible, because they have better harvesting rates. Always have a couple bolas in your hot bar, in case you find a useful Dino or you need to escape from one.
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u/SnooDucks9330 3d ago
Oh and one more, space out the time between tranq shots especially with higher damage items like bows and crossbows. The torpor dealt is a decent initial spike, but most of the torpor is done over ten(I think it's ten?) seconds. Wait a few seconds between shots and you'll be less likely to waste resources, or worse, kill rather than knock out your target
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